Peculiarities of the Preparation and Conduct of Repeat Elections
1. The reasons and, procedure for calling and the terms for conducting repeat elections to the President of Ukraine is specified respectively by part four of article 15, part three of article 16 and parts seven to nine of article 17 of this law.
2. The repeat election s of the President of Ukraine shall be conducted by the same polling station and territorial election commissions and in the same election precincts that during the last ordinary (extraordinary) elections. If necessary, changes in the membership of the election commissions shall be made according to the procedure envisaged by this law.
3. When conducting repeat elections of the President of Ukraine, the lists of voters shall be compiled based on the lists of voters, which were used during the last regular (extraordinary) elections. Adjustments of the lists of voters shall be made according to the procedure envisaged by this Law.
4. The nomination of candidates shall begin the day after the beginning of the election process, and shall end fifty-five days prior to the day of repeat elections. The submission of documents to the Central Election Commission for registering candidates shall end fifty-five days prior to the day of repeat elections. The repeat submission of documents according to part three and four of article 52 of this Law shall end forty-five days prior to the day of repeat elections.
5. No less than two hundred and fifty thousand signatures in support of the candidate to the post of President of Ukraine signatures must be collected, including no less than 10 thousand signatures in each of two-thirds of the regions (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the oblasts and the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol) of Ukraine. The signature sheets shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission no later than thirty days prior to the day of elections.
6. The nomination of candidacies for membership of the territorial election commissions shall end eighty days prior to the day of elections, for membership of polling station election commissions , - thirty-five days prior to the day of elections. Territorial election commissions shall be formed at least seventy days prior to the day of elections, and polling station election commissions (except for exceptional cases specified in part six of article 24 of this Law) - no later than thirty-three days prior the day of elections.
